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More Nuke Rumors - Possible National Security incident in early October
2005 09 27
By Richard J. Boylan, Ph.D. | DrBoylan.com

Friends,
In the spirit of the transparency we seek to practice as we rebuild into a Fifth World society, I share the following information from a source, a friend of mine inside government, who is familiar with National Security operations and information. I deem his information truthful, but necessarily lacking in absolute certitude.

On Saturday this source wrote me, in reply to my email post about Bush hunkering down in Colorado Springs at Northern Command Headquarters during Operation Granite Shadow, a Drill to prepare for national martial law and military takeover of the United States following an emergency of catastrophic proportions. My source revealed the bottom-line reason for Bush’s trip: “You didn’t get this from me, but it’s about seven suitcase nukes set for the first day of Ramadan (Oct. 4th).” [See article below]

I wrote back to him: “Is this information confidential, (I understand that you cannot be identified), or am I able to share it with others?”

In reply my source wrote late Sunday:

“I doubt it’s confidential as it has been rumored for a while. Every Ramadan has the same prediction (it’s Oct. 4 this year, by the way). There has been talk that there are as many as 20 and some say 40 suitcases, but most of the triggers have a short shelf-life and are disabled, or we have been able to knock them out with counter-measures. But the Big Guy [George W] will be in one of the bunkers on or around that time, as will Cheney.

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Nukes in the News…with a dose of UFOs….wierd!

Source: IAEM mailing list…editorial today…worth a read…from Ed M. Kostiuk…

The aftermath of these devastating disasters should be a wake-up call to examine the broad national and global trends making us vulnerable in the first place, said Professor Lloyd Kolbe, who focuses on these issues within Indiana University’s public health program.

It’s not just a matter of the technicalities of improved disaster response, explained Kolbe, it’s examining what it means to be in harm’s way.

First, he said, “take urbanizing effects. In the U.S., 75 percent of people are now part of urban populations.”

Globally, he said, that urbanizing effect is combined with another factor: demographic extremes that include aging populations and large adolescent populations. “In the developing nations right now, the size of the adolescent population is unheralded in the species. And fully half of these adolescents are not employed and not in school. Our state department is taking some interest in that but not nearly the interest they should be taking,” he said.

The effect of economic disparities became clear in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he said, when some people were simply unable to lessen the effects of the disaster on themselves at all. “With these economic disparities - and there are enormous disparities - there’s an increasing strain on social fabric. There are people who can afford health care and prescription medications. There are people who can’t. And, in the wake of something like Katrina, it’s not just about improving their health. It’s about whether they live or not. It’s about a lack of basics needed to sustain life and health.”

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A National Wake-up call…disaster prepping…

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5 found dead in Beaumont apartment
By ZEKE MINAYA, CLAY ROBISON and GERONIMO RODRIGUEZ
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
HURRICANE RITA

A generator stored inside a north Beaumont apartment poisoned a sleeping family with carbon monoxide fumes early today while tempers flared among frustrated relief officials and area residents.

A neighbor at the Pine Club apartment, 1515 Pine Street, found three children at 9:50 a.m., sprawled on the sidewalk gasping for air. Killed were a man, 46, a woman, 25, and three children, 7, 9 and 12.

Another woman and an 8-year-old were in critical condition, according to Beaumont police Officer Carmen Apple. Carbon monoxide fumes in the house was six to seven times lethal dosage, officials at the scene said.

Neighbors attempted to perform CPR on the children after paramedics were delayed reaching the scene. They said the paramedics were stranded when their vehicle got stuck in a ditch.

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Ground Zero for Rita: Report from Beaumont, Texas

This even affects us, all the up here in Wyoming, where gas in Riverton has danced near $3 a gallon for weeks. It cost me over $30 to fill up the Town Car with just HALF A TANK….

…which is why I’m now, and have been, riding my mountain bike all over campus, rain and shine.

You gotta do what ya gotta do…

Rich

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This Week In Petroleum
Released on September 28, 2005
(Next Release on October 5, 2005)

A Significant Blow, But Not a Knockout
With Hurricane Rita making landfall near the Beaumont/Port Arthur, TX and Lake Charles, LA refining centers, 7 refineries, amounting to 1.7 million barrels per day of refinery capacity (10 percent of U.S. refinery capacity), were directly in the path or very near the path of the hurricane. Damage to some of these refineries, and the lack of electrical power supply to others, is preventing their immediate return to service. Combined with the 5 percent of refinery capacity near the New Orleans area that was still out following Hurricane Katrina, as much as 15 percent of U.S. refinery capacity could be out for at least another couple of weeks.

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Need Gas? Good Luck! Here are the numbers, thanks to the recent storms…

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Blackwater Down
by JEREMY SCAHILL
[from the October 10, 2005 issue of THE NATION]

The men from Blackwater USA arrived in New Orleans right after Katrina hit. The company known for its private security work guarding senior US diplomats in Iraq beat the federal government and most aid organizations to the scene in another devastated Gulf. About 150 heavily armed Blackwater troops dressed in full battle gear spread out into the chaos of New Orleans. Officially, the company boasted of its forces “join[ing] the hurricane relief effort.” But its men on the ground told a different story.

Some patrolled the streets in SUVs with tinted windows and the Blackwater logo splashed on the back; others sped around the French Quarter in an unmarked car with no license plates. They congregated on the corner of St. James and Bourbon in front of a bar called 711, where Blackwater was establishing a makeshift headquarters. From the balcony above the bar, several Blackwater guys cleared out what had apparently been someone’s apartment. They threw mattresses, clothes, shoes and other household items from the balcony to the street below. They draped an American flag from the balcony’s railing. More than a dozen troops from the 82nd Airborne Division stood in formation on the street watching the action.

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“Blackwater Down”, or Be afraid…be very, very afraid.

Maybe the feds can use their new patent to track these morons below…and “disconnect” them.

Rich

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Purported al Qaeda Newscast Debuts on Internet
Masked Anchorman Lauds Gaza Pullout, Iraq Attacks, Hurricane Katrina
By Daniel Williams
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, September 27, 2005; A16

ROME, Sept. 26 — An Internet video newscast called the Voice of the Caliphate was broadcast for the first time on Monday, purporting to be a production of al Qaeda and featuring an anchorman who wore a black ski mask and an ammunition belt.

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Morons on the March: Purported al Qaeda Newscast Debuts on Internet

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Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy
Rumors supplanted accurate information and media magnified the problem. Rapes, violence and estimates of the dead were wrong.
By Susannah Rosenblatt and James Rainey, Times Staff Writers

BATON ROUGE, La. — Maj. Ed Bush recalled how he stood in the bed of a pickup truck in the days after Hurricane Katrina, struggling to help the crowd outside the Louisiana Superdome separate fact from fiction. Armed only with a megaphone and scant information, he might have been shouting into, well, a hurricane.

The National Guard spokesman’s accounts about rescue efforts, water supplies and first aid all but disappeared amid the roar of a 24-hour rumor mill at New Orleans’ main evacuation shelter. Then a frenzied media recycled and amplified many of the unverified reports.

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Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy